Implicit super constructor is undefined

Hey, I did some searching on this problem and nothing I tried fixed it so here goes:

I am working with inheritance for the first time. Trying to write a program with a parent class that has a child class that is also a parent class to a third class. Parent is called Player, child: ComputerPlayer, and child of that: NaiveComputerPlayer. I am getting an error in my ComputerPlayer class saying that the super constructor is undefined for the Player() class. Here is my code for the parent class:
and here is the code for the child class, ComputerPlayer:

As you can see, I tried to include a default constructor in Player with no parameters, which the sites I found recommended for my problem, but the error persists in the ComputerPlayer class. Can anyone tell me what I am missing? Just in point of fact, I am only using ComputerPlayer as a platform to extend Player to the types of computer player bots I am writing, which is why there is nothing but a constructor there, which, again, is what I thought I needed to use inheritance for the respective child classes. As always, I really appreciate any help you might offer.

Have you recompiled Player since adding the empty constructor? Do you have another class named Player in your classpath which both the main method and the subclass may be using instead of the one you are changing?

james falk wrote:I'm sure it's the same code. I am also getting an error in my main method that says I cannot instantiate the type Player, does that help? Here's a code snippet from the main method:

I get an error on that third and fourth line about instantiation

You can't instantiate Player directly because it is abstract, you can only instantiate a concrete sub-class of Player. So this error is unrelated to the constructor issue you are having.

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posted Feb 18, 2013 18:34:50

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turns out the problem was with the compiler. i rebooted it and no error is visible. Thanks for helping me clear up the instantiation problem, and thanks for taking a sec to help me try and figure out the constructor issue.